November 12, 1918.
Commission composed of Frumkin, 2 Larin 3 and [Smirnova] Krestinsky.
— Saturday
— draft to be worked out.

1 At the discussion at meetings of the Council of People's Commissars on November 12 and 21, 1918, of the draft decree on the organization of supplies, the following resolutions were adopted, formulated, in all probability, by Lenin:

"a) Charge the Commissariat of Food with the preparation within two days of a series of practical measures:
1) Toward increasing the number of Soviet shops and warehouses and bringing this number to such proportions that it would be possible, without detriment to the population, to close all private shops;
2) Toward the complete merger of cooperatives and Soviet shops and warehouses into a single supply apparatus, placed under complete control of Soviet power;
b) Form a commission consisting of comrades Frumkin, Larin and Krestinsky, which shall establish by Saturday the order of municipalization and nationalization of private trade and the order of supplying the population with products through Soviet and cooperative shops unified by Soviet organs" (protocol of the Council of People's Commissars No. 220, arch. I. L. No. 12032).

"a) Obligate the Commissariat of Food and the Supreme Council of the National Economy simultaneously with the publication of the decree on the organization of supplies to publish a list of goods.
b) Obligate the Commissariat of Food and the Supreme Council of the National Economy and the Commissariat of Labor to issue an instruction on the order of attracting cooperatives to the work of supply and on supervision over them" (protocol of the Council of People's Commissars No. 224, arch. I. L. No. 12062).

2 M. I. Frumkin — in 1918, member of the collegium of the People's Commissar of Food.
3 Yu. Larin (Lurye M. A.) — in 1918, member of the presidium of the Supreme Council of the National Economy.

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